Followers

Thursday 20 July 2023

Missing for a couple of days

I have been off line for a couple of days as some rogue had got into my system, but with the help of my friends I silenced and destroyed the path into my set-up. It was costly in time but the animals carried on as usual, in fact there is three outside my window enjoying their supper.
 

Sunday 16 July 2023

Hedgehogs return

Several months ago our neighbour tidied up his garden with a rota-scythe and killed off a couple of hedgehogs and the rest ran away. I have pleasure in announcing the return. 
Welcomed by the foxes who treat them as friends. One kept his distance but the other joined the foxes at the dinner table. A very welcome sight indeed.
 

Friday 14 July 2023

My foxey friends

I am shortly to celebrate my 86 birthday and having friends like these visit me every night makes me feel younger. Often when I put the food out they are waiting outside my bedroom window. I talk to them and they just look at me and carry on.
This one looking at the camera when it arrived I said 'hello where have you been and it looked at me and gave me a little grunt 'hello'. I open the window now and it doesn't seem to bother them.
This is the one I said hello to and as you can see it tucked into its supper just 1metre away from me.
 I love my foxey friends.

Mike Attwood - Photographer

Blog Archive

About Me

My photo
Evacuated during the second world war to a village in Yorkshire where I lived in the home of a good photographer for more than five years who taught me the basics and a great deal about nature. Well past retirement age I have been a wildlife photographer for more than 30 years. Red Kites have been my speciality for much of this period. I did spend several years snapping wheelchair athletes and organizing the British Road Race Championship. In the year 2000 I was awarded a distinction by the Royal Photographic Society for my portfolio on wheelchair athletes. Most of my pics are digital, using Sony cameras and Sigma lenses. I used to spend many weeks each year with friends in Wales which is close to the Elan Valleys where I got many of my raptor pics. I now get these pictures more closely to home, specially red kites and peregrines. I support my pension by selling my pics, cards, coasters, fridge magnets and key rings etc. at craft fairs, something I wish I had done much earlier in life. I give illustrated talks to clubs and societies on wildlife and other branches of photography that I have been involved in.